asteroid close-call?

anyone heard anything about this? i can't seem to find any news posts or anything but i heard about it from someone i know.

Ya, was 7500 miles away or something. Ill find the link.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/0627/Asteroid-2011-MD-buzzes-Earth-nearer-than-some-satellites

i knew it supposedly was gonna be real close, but i didnt think it was THAT close.

They only discovered it a week ago or so. I didn't hear about it till yesterday.

same, i heard about it from one of my coworkers who was running his mouth about the mayan calander thing

It's still 2011...he seems to be rushing the end a bit..

i don't understand why people even want to know when the world ends...

wow that's pretty close!

I think the way it "slingshotted" around once it passed earth could have something to do with earth's gravitational pull on it?

But if it had entered our atmosphere most of it would have burned up...? I know it's an asteroid (no ice to melt etc) not a comet but mightn't it still burn up?


I don't really know anything in this area but hey let's play the expert eh?

h3av3n wrote:i don't understand why people even want to know when the world ends...

It's just knowlege isn't it? People want to know when the world was formed, they wan't to know when it will end. Its quite an obvious thing to want to know isn't it?

You want to know when you die? Knowing how it formed is cool how it ends is just some shit i rather leave unsolved.

It won't die when are are around.

I see your point, but it's so far away i don't think it's a problem. In fact humans will probably have screwed the place up long before any "apocolypse" starts happening ()

<3 and i always wanted to tell you, you have the cutest name in quake

Nice didn't know about this. If it did hit the Earth would it really end the world?

Maybe a stupid question but not quite sure if asteroid that small-ish could destroy the Earth.

I'm no expert, but I don't think it would be anywhere near big enough to destroy the whole planet.

Merky wrote:I'm no expert, but I don't think it would be anywhere near big enough to destroy the whole planet.

That is what I figured but it has to be moving at a very high velocity. I am sure it can do massive damage. I mean look at the AZ creator it was claimed to be 150 ft. asteroid traveling at 26K MPH and it did that much damage?

It doesn't have to destroy the entire planet, it could just be big enough to cause a major dust cloud that would block the sun out long enough for all the plants to die. When that happens, we lose our oxygen and die..

EARTH_QUAKE wrote:I think the way it "slingshotted" around once it passed earth could have something to do with earth's gravitational pull on it?

Captain Obvious's new sidekick, Private Duh.

nodata wrote:It doesn't have to destroy the entire planet, it could just be big enough to cause a major dust cloud that would block the sun out long enough for all the plants to die. When that happens, we lose our oxygen and die..

Na - a dust cloud simply blocks the sun, causing the atmosphere to lose heat.


@roach Take it easy nobody else said anything about it :L

@heaven lolwtfbbq...? umm thanks lol

Roachleader wrote:

EARTH_QUAKE wrote:I think the way it "slingshotted" around once it passed earth could have something to do with earth's gravitational pull on it?

Captain Obvious's new sidekick, Private Duh.

lol

i didn't

I threw a big rock in the air today, it came down and hit the earth.

Didn't make the news papers though.

T@D wrote:I threw a big rock in the air today, it came down and hit the earth.

Didn't make the news papers though.

Was that the shake I felt at work?

No, That was angel getting out of bed.

T.T!!!